Genius....

Buddy tried to create a scene from A Christmas Story today.....

He was actually surprised when his tongue didn't stick. Hmmmm, maybe we need a little more science added into our daily education. But then again, when you study like this....

It's no wonder that you forgot that you're missing freezing temperatures to make your tongue stick to metal! Minor details. So all in all a super fantastic, working on our inner genius, day!

An ode to a bald headed geek.....

There is a running joke in my family about calling my dad a bald headed geek (something to do with a nickname a  teenage boy came up with to describe my dad a long time ago). It's been at least 25 years and the nickname is still sticking! Although, after today I'm thinking we may have a contender for top bald headed geek....

I do especially love the tan line on the head, pretty fancy if you ask me! My work called me at the crack of dawn this morning to see if I could work during the day instead of my scheduled night shift. Huzzah......Day shift and joining the land of the living! When I got home tonight,  my personal bald headed geek was trying to hide from me. Little did he know that his head gives off a glow to rival any nightlight, let's just say I didn't even know he was hiding he was so obvious. Not sure what Shane is thinking, cause all I'm thinking is that white head is going to get burnt in all the paddling and tennis that boy's been doing lately. But perhaps a case of the hair envy has gotten to him and caused this irrational behavior? Oh well, in other news I volunteered at the school to help test kindergartners in math for the next two weeks. Maybe by the end of it I'll be matching the boys with their hairdo's after I pull all of mine out..... So all in all a super fantastic, shiny headed and who are you calling a geek, day!

Play that funky music white boy.....

Buddy has been asking for several months if he could get an electronic keyboard/learn to play an instrument. Well, I guess today is the day! He has been playing for 5 hours non-stop with the goofiest grin on his face....

Well, goofier than usual I guess I should say. Now that Shane is home, I have two boys rocking out. Thank goodness the Easter Bunny decided to buy me some more Rockabilly dresses so I'll have something appropriate to wear! Yep, somehow it all cycles back to me. In other news, I took my car to get a simple oil change and safety check. The garage was so backed up that it took 5 hours, but the waiting totally worked in Buddy's favor....

It's amazing how fast time goes by when you're playing video games and eating churros! Thank goodness for a nearby arcade and Taco Bell.....we almost think they must all be in cahoots with each other for how fantastically things went. Plus, he got some awesome Sea Monkeys with all his tickets he won (paid good money for). I love those things, I had some when I was his age....unfortunately they had an untimely death when a huge storm blew in through an open window and the monkey's were on the window sill. Whoopsie! Anyway, while we were walking in downtown Kona to get to the arcade, Buddy mentioned how much he can't wait to go to Utah. The trigger for the comment......stores, lots and lots of stores (we don't have those where we come from). Look out Utah, we  are coming your way in June to help you out of your recession. You are totally welcome for our unselfish sacrifice! So all in all a super fantastic, I may or may not be getting a headache...Hey,  who handed the kid a microphone to go with that keyboard (oh, it was me), day!

Where is Superman when you need him?

Buddy has been asking me for weeks to take him to the local 4D movie theater. Luckily for him I can barely walk these days, compliments of a ridiculous kettle ball workout I did on Wednesday  Anyway, thanks to my limited mobility I decided to take the night off of mothering and go to the movies! Buddy of course loved it, afterwards we (he) decided to walk around a little bit. While we were there we walked past a pay phone. I don't know how it happened, but Buddy didn't know what a pay phone was! Seriously, when did I become so old and archaic? Buddy begged to make a phone call.....

Let's pretend I'm a good mom and let him have one phone call instead of spending all my change on the Pac-Man game at the shop around the corner! Oh well, he had a good time posing with the phone. Maybe for my next trick I'll show him a cassette tape player. So all in all a super fantastic, making our one call, day!

King of the Paddlers....

Training day....

Well, it's Wednesday, so that means time for ninja training in the cul de sac....

What, you didn't do ninja training today? Weird! So all in all a super fantastically trained day!

The series of events.....

A few weeks ago Buddy checked out of the school library a book about face painting. That led to him asking me to buy some face paints. Which led to the Easter Bunny placing some face paints in his basket. Which led to him asking his mother to paint his face just like the "kid on the cover of the book". Which led to his mother telling him she didn't have that good of a memory. Which led to him using part of his recess time to check out the book from the school library. Which led to him coming immediately home and locking himself in the bathroom for 30 minutes and exiting like this.....

He had paddling practice today, so the ocean washed all the paint off pretty quickly, but we had our friends/neighbors over for dinner, which led to more of this...

this....

and this...

I even got a little something from the efforts.....

It's not every mom that can say she got lip and mustache marks on her cheek from her 8 year old boy! In other news, Buddy has declared that he wants to take keyboarding lessons because according to him the keyboard is the most "scientific instrument because it makes the most noises". Hmmmm.....I'm replaying an episode of Friends in my head where Ross plays the keyboard and it's just a bunch of weird sounds and he thinks it's phenomenal and Phoebe is the only one who actually thinks it sounds good. Yeah, I'm picturing that in my near future. So all in all a super fantastic, eventful, day!